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Stretchable Dielectric Material for Conformable Bioelectronic Devices
We use a photo-patternable silicone polymer to fabricate an elastically deformable encapsulation film on stretchable gold lines that electrically conduct while stretched to >50strain. To detect bioelectrical s...
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Monitoring of Traumatically Injured Organotypic Hippocampal Cultures with Stretchable Microelectrode Arrays
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be caused by motor vehicle accidents, falls and firearms. Approximately 2of the US population lives with disabilities cause by TBI. To discover mechanisms of functional deficit...
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Advances in Encapsulating Elastically Stretchable Microelectrode Arrays
Stretchable microelectrode arrays (SMEAs) that are fabricated on the compliant silicone poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS) have potential applications for research on traumatic brain injury (TBI). Increasing the nu...
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AlGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells grown by using atomic layer deposition technique
We report the successful growth of high quality ultraviolet (UV) AlGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) structure using atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique. The AlGaN/GaN MQW sample grown on the sapphire ...
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Transient Heat and Material Flow Modeling of Friction Stir Processing of Magnesium Alloy using Threaded Tool
A three-dimensional transient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to investigate the material flow and heat transfer during friction stir processing (FSP) in an AZ31B magnesium alloy. The ma...
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Interphase Strain Gradients in Multilayered Steel Composite from Microdiffraction
Multilayered steel composites consisting of alternating martensite and austenite layers and exhibiting a combination of high strength and ductility were successfully fabricated. To understand the microplastici...
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Singlet oxygen-generating from fluorescence probes based on denatured bovine serum albumin-conjugated CdTe quantum dots and photosensitizer Chlorin e6
Based on the excellent optical properties of quantum dots (QDs), a simple and efficient method was proposed and established to produce a singlet oxygen activating QDs-denatured Bovine Serum Albumin (dBSA)-Chlo...
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Friction Stir Welding of ODS and RAFM Steels
Advanced structural materials such as oxide dispersion strengthened steels and reduced-activation ferritic/martensitic steels are desired in fusion reactors as primary candidate materials for first wall and bl...
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Effects of Two-Stage Cold Rolling Schedule on Microstructure and Texture Evolution of Strip Casting Grain-Oriented Silicon Steel with Extra-Low Carbon
A 0.27 mm-thick grain-oriented silicon steel sheet with extra-low carbon was successfully produced by a novel processing route including strip casting, normalizing, two-stage cold rolling with an intermediate ...
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Influence of Heat Treatments on the Microstructural Evolution and Resultant Mechanical Properties in a Low Carbon Medium Mn Heavy Steel Plate
In this study, the microstructural evolution and resultant mechanical properties in a low carbon medium Mn heavy steel plate were investigated in detail. The results show that the introduction of medium mangan...
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Improvement of Surface Ridging Resistance of an Ultra-purified Ferritic Stainless Steel by Optimizing Hot Rolling Condition
The effects of the finisher entry temperatures (FETs) on the surface ridging behavior for an ultra-purified 21%Cr ferritic stainless steel have been investigated. The results indicate that decreasing the FET f...
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Synthesis and catalytic performance of SiO2@Ni and hollow Ni microspheres
Nickel (Ni) catalyst has been widely used in catalytic reducing reactions such as catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds and catalytic reduction of organic dyes. However, the catalytic efficiency of pure...
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Evolution of Dislocation Loops in AL-6XN Stainless Steels Irradiated by Hydrogen Ions
AL-6XN stainless steels, one of the candidate structure materials for supercritical water-cooled reactor, were irradiated from 0.5 to 5 dpa using 100 keV H2 + ions at 290 and 380 °C. Micro...
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Correlations of Ni Contents, Formation of Reversed Austenite and Toughness for Ni-Containing Cryogenic Steels
It has been widely demonstrated that addition of Ni in low-carbon steels can effectively improve the cryogenic toughness, but the mechanism behind it has yet to be clarified. In the present work, the evolution...
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Photoelectrochemical sensing of hydrogen peroxide at zero working potential using a fluorine-doped tin oxide electrode modified with BiVO4 microrods
The authors describe a highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) scheme for the determination of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). BiVO4 microrods were hydrothermally synthesized and deposited on fluorine - doped tin o...
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The Role of Retained Austenite on the Mechanical Properties of a Low Carbon 3Mn-1.5Ni Steel
The present studies focus on the correlation between retained austenite characteristics and the cryogenic temperature Charpy impact toughness, strength, and plasticity. The steels with different volume fractio...
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Origin of Insignificant Strengthening Effect of CNTs in T6-Treated CNT/6061Al Composites
Carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced 6061Al (CNT/6061Al) composites were fabricated via powder metallurgy combined with friction stir processing (FSP). CNTs were dispersed after FSP and accelerated the precipitati...
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Microstructure Evolution and Strain-Dependent Constitutive Modeling to Predict the Flow Behavior of 20Cr–24Ni–6Mo Super-Austenitic Stainless Steel During Hot Deformation
Hot compression tests were carried out with specimens of 20Cr–24Ni–6Mo super-austenitic stainless steel at strain rate from 0.01 to 10 s−1 in the temperature range from 950 to 1150 °C, and flow behavior was analy...
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The time-dependent cellular response mechanism upon exposure to zinc oxide nanoparticles
Zinc oxide nanoparticle is one of the nanomaterials people engaged most in their life and its health effect has been taken into concern. In this work, A549 cell line was used as cell model, and the cytotoxicit...
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Enhancement on deformation uniformity of the target sheet by bulging process with magnetic medium and overlap** sheet
In the field of sheet forming, how to improve its performance is one of long-term goals. It is also an important basis for determining the quality and reliability of sheet forming. In this paper, the influence...